VFW to Testify In Support of Blue Water Sailors

National VFW - 4/3/2017

On April 5, 2017, the VFW will testify in front of the House
Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial
Affairs. While the testimony will concern a total of six bills, this is
the first testimony in the 115th Congress on H.R. 299, the Blue Water
Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017. Those veterans who served in the U.S.
Navy during the war in Vietnam are impacted by an arbitrary and
capricious decision by VA to not be included under presumptive coverage
unless they were operating on land or inland water ways. This decision
prevents veterans who suffer from the same conditions as other Vietnam
veterans from receiving care for these conditions and ending this
exclusion is a major priority for the VFW. You can watch the testimony,
which will start at 10:30 a.m. EDT, by clicking here.